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Bruins Announce Marchand Has A “Mild Concussion”
by Paul on 04/11/13 at 05:59 PM ET
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A New Four-Year Deal For Marchand In Boston
by Paul on 09/07/12 at 12:50 PM ET
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BOSTON, MA – Boston Bruins General Manager Peter Chiarelli announced today, September 7, that the club has signed forward Brad Marchand to a four-year contract extension through the 2016-17 season. Marchand’s contract will be worth an average of $4.5 million annually over the four years of his deal. Chiarelli will speak to the media later today regarding the signing.
The 2011-12 season marked Marchand’s second full NHL season with the Bruins. The 5’9”, 183-pound native of Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia registered NHL career highs in goals, assists and points, recording 28-27=55 totals, along with 87 penalty minutes in 76 games. His 28 goals ranked second on the Bruins, behind Tyler Seguin’s 29 tallies, and his plus-31 rating ranked fifth in the league.
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Afternoon Line
by Paul on 04/24/12 at 04:54 PM ET
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“For them to judge what knocks you down, they don’t know your balance or what not on the play. They’re sitting at home watching on TV. I don’t really care what they say. They have no impact on my game, my life. They mean nothing.”
-Brad Marchand of the Boston Bruins on his reputation of being a “diver”. More on Boston/Washington from Katie Carrera of Capitals Insider.
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Video- A Hit, Maybe A Dive And A Goal
by Paul on 04/22/12 at 07:26 PM ET
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All in the last minute of the 2nd period, Boston/Washington.
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Video- Chimera Sorry For The “Slash” On Marchand
by Paul on 04/17/12 at 01:59 AM ET
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from Joe McDonald of ESPN Boston,
During a scrum in front of the Bruins’ net early in the third period, Chimera clearly struck Marchand in the groin area with his stick, sending Marchand to the ice in pain. He was attended to by team trainer Don DelNegro.
Chimera was given a two-minute penalty for slashing.
In the hallway, Chimera apologized for the incident.
“Sorry, man. You know I’m not like that,” Chimera told Marchand.
Apologies aside, Marchand was not happy with the slash.
“He was trying to be sneaky and do a cheap shot,” Marchand said before talking with Chimera. “The ref caught him and that’s all that matters.”
a bit more and watch the “slash” below…
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Video- Big Hit Of The Night, Campbell On Marchand
by Paul on 03/16/12 at 12:39 AM ET
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Brain Campbell with a hip-check on Brad Marchand.
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Video- Have We Seen This Before? Marchand Low Hit
by Paul on 02/16/12 at 12:19 AM ET
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Brad Marchand received 2 minutes for clipping Alexei Lemelin of the Canadiens.
In case you need a refresher, watch below…
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Marchand Returns, Has A Few Things To Say About Clipping Calls
by Paul on 01/19/12 at 07:19 PM ET
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from Joe Haggerty of CSNNE,
Brad Marchand is finally back after sitting out a five-game suspension, and he’s ready to provide an energetic lift to a team that’s lost two of their first three games on a suddenly challenging road trip.
“I’m excited to be back in the lineup and back in the game again,” said Marchand. “The game happens so quickly. But before the games you think about how you’re going to play and [suspensions] can creep into your mind a little bit.”
With the five-game decision fresh in Marchand’s mind, he’s also keeping a close eye on what’s happening around the rest of the league. The B’s agitator saw the Nick Foligno hit on Dion Phaneuf that earned the Ottawa forward a two-minute clipping penalty during Tuesday night’s “Battle of Ontario.” Foligno and Phaneuf dropped gloves shortly after the hit and there was no long-term injury on the play.
But the hit in and of itself was similar to Marchand’s low-bridge on Salo, and Marchand failed to see any significant differences between the two clipping incidents. It’s something he’s unfortunately become an expert on over the last few weeks.
“I saw it. It looked very similar to mine. We were on the same position on the ice. [Foligno] got him in the same area at the same time, and the puck was roughly in the same area,” said Marchand. “The only difference was that Phaneuf got up and he didn’t get injured. I’d be very surprised if the league doesn’t look at that very closely.”
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From One ‘Rat’ To Another
by Paul on 01/14/12 at 01:57 PM ET
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from Steve Buckley of the Boston Herald,
Credentials in place, let’s get to it: Does (Ken) Linseman believe (Brad) Marchand is qualified to carry his nickname?
“There have been so many times since my career ended where I’ve heard people being compared to me,” he said yesterday. “But he’s probably the first one that plays closest to me that also has really good skills. I think he’s a great player, and he’ll be a great player for years. So as far as being compared to me, yeah, I’m quite proud and happy about that because I like him as a player.
“At the beginning of last year,” Linseman continued, “I was watching him play on the fourth line and I remember saying to Ricky Middleton that I think he’s good enough to play on the first couple of lines. As the year developed, he emerged as a really, really good player. He’s the perfect fit for (Patrice) Bergeron and he’s the perfect fit for (Tyler) Seguin.
“I don’t think there’s any weakness at all. He has a great shot, he sees the ice, he never loses battles, he’s a great forechecker. I like it all.”
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Video- Marchand Given A Five Game Suspension
by Paul on 01/09/12 at 09:34 PM ET
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Brendan Shanahan explains.
added 6:45pm, NHL release is below…
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Marchand Explains The Hit On Salo
by Paul on 01/08/12 at 07:36 PM ET
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from Matt Kalman of The Bruins Blog,
The Bruins were off from practice today, but the players participated in the team’s “Slice the Ice” charity event at the TD Garden.
For the first time since he was ejected from the Bruins’ loss to Vancouver yesterday, Marchand addressed the media and spoke about the clip on Canucks defenseman Sami Salo that resulted in a game misconduct in the second period.
“The puck was going around the boards and I went to pick it up and was kind of looking over my shoulder,” Marchand told the media in Boston. “I saw Salo coming in and I just kind of went down.
“It was unfortunate he got injured. I did go under him, but I felt the base contact was at about his hip point and that’s usually a pretty legal hit from what I’ve seen in the past.”
added 6:18pm, from Ben Kuzma of the Vancouver Province,
the suggestion by Bruins coach Claude Julien that Marchand was trying to protect himself from being hit in the corner boards by Salo late in the second period of a 4-3 Canucks triumph set Vigneault off.
“That’s a stupid comment,” said the Canucks coach. “What Marchand did there, you could end a player’s career doing that and I’ve never seen Sami Salo take a run at any player in the NHL. All I’ve seen Sami Salo do is play with integrity and play the right way.
“Marchand—this is just my feeling on this—some day he’s going to get it. Somebody is going to say enough is enough and they’re going to hurt the kid, because he plays to hurt players and in my mind if the league doesn’t take care of it, somebody else will.
“Sometimes it takes the league time to figure things out and there’s a difference between a good hip check when the player is coming down on you one-on-one with the puck and what we saw Marchand do with his definite attempt to injure. Something needs to happen.”
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Canucks Battle Bruins to a 4-3 Win
by Paul on 01/07/12 at 07:24 PM ET
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Within the first four minutes of the start of the game, we had an old-fashion line brawl.
03:54 Vancouver Dale Weise: 5 minutes, fighting
03:54 Vancouver Alexandre Burrows: 2 minutes, slashing
03:54 Boston Milan Lucic: 2 minutes, roughing
03:54 Boston Shawn Thornton: 2 minutes, roughing
03:54 Boston Shawn Thornton: 2 minutes, slashing
03:54 Boston Milan Lucic: 10 minutes, leaving player’s/penalty bench
03:54 Vancouver Maxim Lapierre: 10 minutes, misconduct
03:54 Boston Nathan Horton: 5 minutes, fighting
03:54 Vancouver Alexandre Burrows: 10 minutes, misconduct
Later in the 2nd period, Brad Marchand received five and a game for clipping Sami Salo which you can watch below along with the line brawl which is the first video.
Also, no update on the condition of Salo.
added 4:33pm, I’ve added a third video and you can decide if Milan Lucic did indeed leave the bench, thereby earning the 10 minute misconduct.
added 6:29pm, Added in the comments NHL release of Lucic misconduct being rescinded.
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NHL Fines Desjardins And Marchand
by Paul on 12/12/11 at 09:04 PM ET
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NEW YORK (Dec. 12, 2011) – San Jose Sharks forward Andrew Desjardins has been fined $2,500, the maximum allowed under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, for boarding Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Sami Lepisto in NHL Game No. 434 in Chicago on Sunday, Dec. 11, the National Hockey League’s Department of Player Safety announced today.
The incident occurred at 2:12 of the first period. Desjardins was assessed a minor penalty for boarding.
NEW YORK (Dec. 12, 2011) – Boston Bruins forward Brad Marchand has been fined $2,500, the maximum allowed under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, for slew-footing Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Matt Niskanen in NHL Game No. 388 in Pittsburgh on Monday, Dec. 5, the National Hockey League’s Department of Player Safety announced today.
The incident occurred at 3:19 of the first period. Marchand was assessed a minor penalty for tripping.
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Brad Marchand Signs for 2 Years with Bruins
by Alanah McGinley on 09/14/11 at 04:49 PM ET
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From TSN:
The Boston Bruins have re-signed forward Brad Marchand to a two-year, $5 million contract. He will make $2 million in 2011-12 and $3 million in 2012-13.
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Bruins Talk: Brad Marchand and David Krejci
by Alanah McGinley on 09/14/11 at 03:52 PM ET
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From Lyle Richardson at The Hockey News:
How much the Bruins are offering and how much Marchand wants is speculation at this point. Nobody on either side will get into specifics publicly, but Marchand, by all recent accounts, wants to remain a Bruin.
While Marchand had an impressive NHL debut last season (21 goals and 41 points in the regular season, 11 goals and 19 points in 25 playoff games), he hasn’t been in the league long enough to justify $4 million per season.
If that is indeed what he’s seeking, he’s not going to get it from the Bruins, which sets the stage for a possible holdout and further trade speculation.
While talks with Marchand drag on, Joe Haggerty of CSNNE.com reported the Bruins are believed to have quietly opened contract talks with center David Krejci, who’s in the final year of a contract with a cap hit of $3.75 million.
read on for more negotiations etc from around the league. Also, more news on Marchand today can be found via NHL.com
Update 2:29pm ET: Marchand’s agent Wade Arnott tells ESPN that he anticipates a deal will be done today.
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Establishing Marchand’s Worth
by Paul on 09/04/11 at 10:36 AM ET
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from Fluto Shinzawa of the Boston Globe,
In 12 days, Bruins veterans will report to TD Garden for physicals and fitness testing. Whether Brad Marchand will be among that group is uncertain.
General manager Peter Chiarelli won’t comment on contract talks, other than to say they are ongoing. Wade Arnott, Marchand’s agent, echoed that sentiment in a voice-mail.
With both sides declining to show their hands, here are three recent comparables - young forwards heading into their second contracts - that should set the parameters for a Marchand deal:
High: James van Riemsdyk, Philadelphia, six years, $25.5 million….
Middle: Logan Couture, San Jose, two years, $5.75 million.
Low: Nathan Gerbe, Buffalo, three years, $4.3 million….
Using the three as comparables, Marchand should come in slightly under Couture. Expect a two-year, $5 million contract.
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Is Marchand A $3 Million Dollar Player?
by Paul on 07/24/11 at 12:17 PM ET
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from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,
• Restricted free agent Brad Marchand remains without a new deal with the Bruins. He is without arbitration rights, which gives him less leverage in the financial taffy pull. Tampa Bay’s Teddy Purcell, a playoff force similar to Marchand, had arbitration rights and settled on a new restricted free agent deal last week that will pay him an average $2.36 million over the next two years. That’s a realistic figure for Marchand. Or possibly a three-year deal for around $9 million total.
• Great news for NBC/Versus viewers last week with word that both Mike Emrick and Dave Strader have signed on for full-time play-by-play duty. Note to NBC execs: time to do the same with analysts Mike Milbury and Andy Brickley, both of whom have their abundant talents muted by good-times-nothing-but-good-times NESN.
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Post-Game 5 Transcript: Bruins Tim Thomas & Brad Marchand
by Alanah McGinley on 05/24/11 at 02:04 AM ET
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Q. Did it matter to you guys whether it was Roloson or Smith? Tampa Bay Lightning seemed to be very cagey about what their plans were.
BRAD MARCHAND: Yeah. They were playing a little bit of mind games there on who they were going to start, but we knew either way we had to get shots in front of their goalie. He was seeing the puck pretty clearly. We knew it didn’t matter who was going to be playing. We had to focus on what we had to do to score and us getting bodies in front of the net and pucks in the net, and we did that pretty good tonight.
Q. Brad, I don’t know if you had a look at the save that Thomas made on Downie. Did you see it? What did you think of that save?
BRAD MARCHAND: Yeah, I saw it. That was unbelievable. I was sitting on the bench. I thought it was for sure going to be a goal. Those are always pretty easy tap-ins. But Timmy came up with an unbelievable save there, and that was a turning point.
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The “Little” Rat
by Paul on 04/24/11 at 09:03 AM ET
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from Joe McDonald of ESPN Boston,
Moments after Boston Bruins forward Brad Marchand erased a scoreless tie with his first career playoff goal Saturday night, former Bruin agitator Kenny “Rat” Linseman was spotted on the press level at TD Garden.
Marchand’s style of play has been compared to the way Linseman played during his career. There’s a reason why he was nicknamed the “Rat”—because he would annoy the heck out of the opposition and played with such tenacity, it would enraged the other team. Basically, he was the type of player you wanted on your team but hated to play against.
Marchand’s the same way, and Linseman appreciates the comparison.
“It’s a compliment because I think he’s a good player,” Linseman said. “I get sick of hearing people talk about somebody playing like me that might not have that good of skills, so when I see [Marchand], it’s nice.”
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Golfing Suggestion for Leafs
by Alanah McGinley on 04/01/11 at 02:49 AM ET
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From Douglas Flynn of NESN, via Tweets:
—Marchand admitted he made golf swing gesture to Toronto bench I spotted as he jawed with Leafs toward the end of the second period.
—Marchand on the golf swing: “Yeah, that was a little immature of me. I shouldn’t have done that.”
—I wasn’t the only one to spot Marchand’s swing. He heard about it between periods. “I got a little bit of an earful. It won’t happen again.”
—By the way, I asked Marchand about his own golf game, and he said handicap was 6 or 7. I’m sure he’s hoping not to work on it for a while.
At The Bruins Blog:
Marchand said that Phil Kessel popped him in the mouth and there should’ve been a penalty. Instead there was a razzing from the bench and then the gesture.[...]
“He’s been a good player for us,” said Julien. “And again, his emotions can sometimes be a positive, and sometimes you don’t want to cross the line. You certainly don’t like that when it happens, so it’s just a learning process.”
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Marchand Suspended Two Games
by Paul on 03/17/11 at 02:50 PM ET
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via Boston Bruins tweet,
Marchand has been suspended for 2 games.
If you missed the hit on Umberger by Marchand, watch it here.
added 1:21pm,
TORONTO (March 17, 2011) – Boston Bruins forward Brad Marchand has been suspended for two games and will forfeit $6,330.64 in salary for delivering an elbow to the head area of Columbus Blue Jackets player R.J. Umberger in NHL game #1044 Tuesday night, the National Hockey League announced today.
Marchand’s fine is based on his average annual salary and is calculated under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The money goes to the Players’ Emergency Assistance Fund.
The incident occurred at 11:40 of the second period when Marchand approached Umberger from behind and struck him in the neck and side of the head with his elbow. No penalty was assessed on the play
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Hello, This Is The NHL Calling
by Paul on 03/16/11 at 04:31 PM ET
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from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe.
Bruins forward Brad Marchand will have a supplemental disciplinary hearing with the NHL via phone tomorrow, Globe reporter Kevin Paul Dupont has confirmed.
The hearing is believed to be related to Marchand’s elbow to the head of Blue Jackets left wing R.J. Umberger last night. Umberger told the Columbus Dispatch he wasn’t happy about it.
continued and watch the hit…
Darren Dreger tweets Dany Heatley has a conference call today at 5:00pm EDT for an elbow incident last night.
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Marchand Talks About The Canadiens
by Paul on 03/08/11 at 05:55 PM ET
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from Sean Gordon of the Globe and Mail,
If most of the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens were saying nice, soothing things for the benefit of the cameras ahead of their meeting Tuesday night, rookie winger Brad Marchand dropped the political correctness like the Bruins shed their gloves in an 8-6 mauling of the Habs on Feb. 9.
No point in pretending, then, that these teams harbour anything but bile for one another.
“They like to get in and shoot their mouths of and then when you hit them they’ll dive down and fall easy,” Marchand said of the Canadiens, who lead the season series between the teams 3-1….
And if the Habs or their fans are upset about the treatment reserved for non-combatants Jaroslav Spacek and Tom Pyatt, who found themselves tangling with beefier Boston opponents in the final stages of that game.
“They stir the pot, and they got what they deserved . . . whatever anyone’s mad about, they can suck it up, it’s not our fault,” said Marchand, who also loosed a few verbal barbs at his old World Junior teammate P.K. Subban, saying “he just likes to take runs at guys” and if he has a chance to avenge a spectacular open-ice hit that Subban laid on him last December, he will.
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Video- DiPietro Another Hasek School Of Stickhandling Candidate
by Paul on 12/10/10 at 01:11 AM ET
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Brad Marchand of the Boston Bruins with the shorthanded goal.
Bruins won 5-2 tonight.
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